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This is virtually the same as what is more often called "bikeshedding", though with a different (just as famous) story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%

• mdekkers 12y ago
  no, it isn't bikeshedding at all.
  • gknoy 12y ago
    It's related, though -- it's a process you can do to help minimize the impact of bikeshedding by baiting it with something innocuous. E.g., you design your awesome nuclear power plant, and put a REALLY ugly bikeshed, so that the reviewers will feel compelled to expend their change-requesting energy on that, rather than on changing something that might affect the important stuff.
• xigency 12y ago
  I think this tends to happen a lot.